# Realtime Avatar — pricing

> What a realtime AI avatar call costs on https://realtimeavatar.ai. Generated from the billing catalog; the page at https://realtimeavatar.ai/pricing renders the same figures.

## Pricing

One meter: seconds on air. Speech recognition, the LLM, the voice and rendering are included. Published self-serve overage is $0.08–$0.095 per minute ($4.80–$5.70 per hour). Your own hosting and external tools remain separate.

| Plan | Monthly | Included realtime | Overage | Concurrent streams |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sandbox | Free | 17 min | — | 1 |
| Starter | $9/mo | 120 min | $5.70/hour | 2 |
| Developer | $24/mo | 600 min | $5.10/hour | 5 |
| Studio | $119/mo | 3,000 min | $4.80/hour | 20 |
| Scale | Quoted | Your volume | Quoted | Custom |

Creating a character is billed separately from talking: $1 per avatar from a photo, $3 per avatar from video, beyond the count your plan includes. Credits are one pot — the same balance pays for generating a character and for the minutes it then talks.

Scale is priced by conversation rather than published, so no figure for it appears on this site.

Full table: https://realtimeavatar.ai/pricing · as markdown: https://realtimeavatar.ai/pricing.md
Cost calculator: https://realtimeavatar.ai/tools/avatar-cost-calculator · worked scenarios: https://realtimeavatar.ai/blog/realtime-ai-avatar-api-pricing

## What is included in a minute

- The language model turn, the voice, and the rendered talking-head video.
- Full-duplex conversation: interruption, backchannel and semantic end-of-turn.
- Tool calls run on your server; the platform never executes them and never charges for them.
- Delivery over LiveKit WebRTC, with the session grant minted by your own endpoint.

## How to compare it with a video-generation platform

Rendered-video products price a finished clip; this prices a live conversation. A minute here is a minute someone spent talking to the character, not a minute of footage produced. If the thing you are building answers back, the per-clip rate is not the number to compare — the per-hour rate above is.

Docs: https://realtimeavatar.ai/docs · Agent guide: https://realtimeavatar.ai/llms.txt · OpenAPI: https://realtimeavatar.ai/openapi.json